Algeria and Tunisia, where newspapers in both French and Arabic have large circulations, were used as case studies to test ideas about elite journalism. It was hypothesized that if French language newspapers appealed to the intelligentsia and opinion leaders, then their content should be serious and responsible; and that, by contrast, the Arabic…

The Arab world has not been able to use many of its assets for its own economic development because of unwholesome sociopolitical factors, e.g., autocratic governmental systems, long subjection to imperialism, and foreign exploitation. Thus, educational change, so necessary if the Arab world is to progress, has been slow. The old, indigenous Arab…